The genus name of Emiliania is in honour of Cesare Emiliani (1922–1995), who was an Italian-American scientist, geologist, micropaleontologist, and founder of paleoceanography, developing the timescale of marine isotope stages.

[1] The genus was circumscribed by Hanspeter Mohler and William Winn Hay in Trans.

Gulf Coast Ass.

It formerly included the species Emiliania huxleyi,[2] now called Gephyrocapsa huxleyi.

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